Friday, March 6, 2009

Of friendship

How do you rekindle a long lost friendship? and the close bond once shared?

How do you remediate a sour friendship?

How do you sustain a friendship?

How do you keep it going strong, despite the waves of life circumstances that keep coming by?

How do you know if the friendship is worth the effort? If it's meant to be, or not? Is it by our own standards? Should it be so?

How do you mend or restore a broken friendship?

How do you stay focus on the course and not drift away? and not lose hope even upon straying from the course?

How do you prevent a friendship from falling like dawn?

How do you resuscitate a dying comafied friendship?

How do you find and reconnect the pieces when the puzzle's been left undone for quite some time?

6 comments:

Voon said...

By being yourself and letting others be themselves. Then hopefully, things will gel by itself.

allyz said...

I believe there's more to just being yourself.

Cos I think sometimes complacency is the culprit. I'm being myself, and i'm letting others be themselves. We're comfortable not doing anything more. And where does that lead us? No progress whatsoever sometimes. In worser scenarios, the friendship just dwindles away..till u lose touch with that particular friend.

Voon said...

pure friendship doesn't need to be deliberate or compelling. It just happens naturally. If it's a good friend it'll never dwindle regardless of the circumstances.

If you need to do so much it'll only create false, short-term sustaining expectation which will only fail and cause more dissappointment. If a friend is a good one, you won't need to do so much if the other is putting in the same amount of interest. If is fades, it could be cause of various factors like work. Most importantly, a friend has no requirement or prerequisites.

Unless you wanna set standards? =)

allyz said...

Nope, there should be no standards in friendship. this i agree :)

I'm merely seeking solutions and answers as to how one can maintain a friendship.

i'm not judging whether my friends are genuine or not..

aiyoh! read my post properly! ;p

Ruth said...

every relationship needs work to be done to it to ensure that it would last. i'd say, make an effort in keeping the relationship running. go out, ask how they are doing, be interested, make yourself available for them, etc. if u know u did ur part and if the person thinks he/she did their part, then im sure the relationship would last. unless of cos its not meant to be. then after watering the relationship, if the plant the doesn't grow, you know that you have given the wrong fertiliser! =p

allyz said...

ruth: lol..wrong fertilizer eh. more like some bugs came and eat the plant away! ;p